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taken in preserving the language of savages. The Bureau of 
Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, under the manage- 
ment of Major J. W. Powell, is devoting most of its energies to 
this branch of the subject. Indeed it is one of the departments 
of anthropology of which our country has just reason to be proud. 
The following works appeared in 1880: 
CuaAreEncy, H. pe—Archéologie Americaine. Déchiffrement des écritures calculi- 
formes ou Mayas, le bas-relief de la croix de Palenque et le manuscrit Troano, 
Alencon, de Broise, 1880, pp. 52, figs., 8vo. 
Fay, E, A.—The testimony of the Romance languges concerning the forms of the 
imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive in the Roman folk-speech. Tr. Anthrop. 
Soc. Wash., 1, 72. Reprinted in the Am. $. of Philology., 1, p. 411. 
GATSCHET, ALBERT SAMUEL (Bureau of Ethnology, S. I., Washington, also editor 
of the dept. of language in the 4m. Antiguarian)—The numeral adjectives in 
the Klamath language, So. Oregon. Am. Antig., 11, 210-217. The Timucua 
language. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., Feb, 20, 1880, Indian color names. Tr. 
nthrop. Soc. of Wash., I, ro. : 
MALLERY, GARRICK (Bureau of Ethnology, S. I., Washington, D. C.)—Introduction 
to the study of sign language among the No. Am. Indians as illusirating the 
gesture speech of mankind. Washington, Gov. Printing Office, 1880, PP» 
4 
A collection of gesture signs and signals, &c., distributed to collaborators. 
Same printer, pp. 329, 4to. ; 
Mason, Otis T.—A comparison of a written language with one that is spoken only 
Tr. Anthrop. Soc. W., 1, 21. 
MOLINA, PADRE FR. ALONZO DE—Vocabulario de la Lengua Mexicana. Platzman 
ed, Leipzig, Tuebner, 1880 
Orozco Y BeRRO, MANUEL (Mexico)—Codice Mendocino, Anales del Mus. Nac. 
d. Mex., 11, 47-82, 127-130, 205-222. 
Pausort, J.—Note sur la langue des Taensas. Rev. Linguistique, Ap. 
PowELt, J. W. (Chief of the Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, D. C.)—On the 
evolution of language. Tr. Anthrop. Soc., W., 1, 35- 
Introduction to the study of Indian languages. Washington, Govt. Print. of, 
XI, pp. 228, 8 ruled leaves, 4 charts, 4to. 
VALENTINI, PHILipp, J. J.—The Landa alphabet. Proc. Am. Antiq. Soc., Ap. 28. 
1880. 
vil. Technology—tIn looking over the whole area of human 
activity, one is struck with the great variety of industries which 
have grown up around a few necessities—for food, clothing, 
shelter, emotional gratification, and the means of enforcing ieee 
tion, This class of investigations we exclude from Mr. Spencer $ 
notion of sociology, including under technology his operativ® 
phenomena; and retaining sociology for the manifestation of so- : 
ciety in the family, the guild and the state. A third class of 
questions will then be grouped under religion or Sebastic anthro- 
